A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
Awkwardness or embarrassment which causes an onlooker to cringe; cringeworthiness.
Inducing awkwardness, embarrassment, or secondhand embarrassment; cringemaking, cringeworthy, cringy.
To experience an inward feeling of disgust, embarrassment, or fear; (by extension) to feel very embarrassed.
To cower, flinch, recoil, shrink, or tense, as in disgust, embarrassment, or fear.
To bow or crouch in servility.
To act in an obsequious or servile manner.
A desire, wish, longing.
Poverty.
Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
Lack, absence, deficiency.
A mole (Talpa europea).
To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.